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marine Miocene of Portugal has been supplied by M. J, C. Berkelejr 

 Cotter, a biographical sketch of Pereira da Costa being furnished 

 by M. J. P. Gomes. M. J. F, Nery Delgado, the present President 

 of the Geological Survey, contributes a Preface to the work, in 

 which he explains that the two fascicules issued by Pereira da Costa 

 and the 28 new plates by no means represent the whole of the 

 marine Miocene fauna of Portugal ; many discoveries having been 

 made since the appearance of the two fascicules, whilst there are 

 many gaps in the new series, notably among tlie Pelecypoda. 

 Further, that some genera are incompletely represented, whilst 

 others are entirely omitted. "Nevertheless," says M. Delgado, 

 "such as they are, these twenty-eight plates are very interesting; 

 they repi'esent many species often imperfectly known, either hitherto 

 badly figured or even entirely new." 



A palseontological note appended to the work contains figures and 

 a description of a new species of Anomia, named A. Choffati, after 

 M. Paul Choffat, who is so well known for his excellent work in 

 connection with the Geological Survey of Portugal, to which he is 

 attached. 



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I._November 23rd, 1904.— J. E. Marr, Sc.D., F.R.S., President, in 

 the Chair. The following communications were read : — 



1. "On an Ossiferous Cavern of Pleistocene Age at Hoe Grange 

 Quarry, Longcliffe, near Brassington (Derbyshire)." By Henry 

 Howe Arnold-Bemrose, M.A., F.G.S., and Edwin Tulley Newton, 

 F.E.S., V.P.G.S. 



During quarrying operations in Hoe Grange limestone quarry in 

 April, 1902, the workmen broke into a cavern. The discovery was 

 first made known to the writers by Mr. J. Ward, of the Cardiff 

 Museum, but the news of mammalian bones being found soon spread, 

 and many of the remains were carried away. An arrangement to 

 work the cave systematically was made, with the permission of the 

 owner, Major Nicholson, and it has now been entirely worked out, 

 the results being given in the present paper. 



The quarry is situated near the top of the plateau, at about 

 1,100 feet above Ordnance datum. The cave is evidently a master- 

 joint in the limestone, enlarged by water, and, besides being 

 a swallow-hole, has served as a hysena den. The large number 

 of mammalian remains found includes lion, hysena, rhinoceros, 

 Elephas, and other Pleistocene forms ; but besides these there 

 were numerous bones and teeth of fallow-deer, mixed with the 

 Pleistocene remains at all horizons in the cave. The physical 

 conditions are such as to preclude, as the authors think, any idea 

 of a redeposition of the bones at any date subsequent to the 

 Pleistocene Period ; and it is concluded, therefore, that the fallow- 



